Work & commute · Wilkinson Heights

Work & commute in Wilkinson Heights, SC

Most working residents leave Wilkinson Heights for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Orangeburg (18%), Columbia (5%) and North Charleston (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

58 of 723 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 665 Wilkinson Heights residents head out of town to work, 58 work right here, and 1,856 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wilkinson Heights.

665live here, work elsewhere

58live and work here

1,856work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wilkinson Heights goes to work

Orangeburg2.2 mi away

18%128

Wilkinson Heights (in town)right here

8%58

Columbia38.1 mi away

5%37

North Charleston59.4 mi away

4%27

Brookdale2.2 mi away

3%24

Lexington41.3 mi away

1%10

Denmark21.5 mi away

1%9

Cayce33.9 mi away

1%9

Aiken51.7 mi away

1%8

Charleston67.5 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%405

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Wilkinson Heights commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

49%

24%

22%

49%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wilkinson Heights is a job hub

2.65jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Wilkinson Heights are

1,914 jobs are based in Wilkinson Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wilkinson Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Wilkinson Heights

1,914 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)73%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Wilkinson Heights residents hold

723 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month34%

−44%

Jobs based in Wilkinson Heights, 2013 → 2023: 3,401 → 1,914. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.